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Well, the time has come for 4 grown men to climb into a truck, drive down to CA, and pick up our Church on Wheels (CoW) package. At least in 1 day that time has come.

We’ll be leaving Hillsboro sometime Wednesday evening, probably around 8 or 8:30, and drive straight through the night to Madera, CA (about 733 miles). Once in Madera (Thursday morning), we will spend about 5 hours or so at the CoW facilities receiving our equipment as well as some training on using it.

We will leave Madera and drive back to Sacramento, about 150 miles north of Madera, Thursday afternoon and spend the night with someone who used to attend our ‘parent’ church, Brookwood Baptist. Leaving Sacramento Friday morning between 6 and 7 should put us back in Hillsboro sometime between 3 and 6 PM (coming back will be slower due to the additional 4000-7000 pounds we will be pulling).

On Saturday we will meet with the rest of our setup/tear down crew and practice setting up and tearing down a couple of times so we can be ready for our preview service on Sunday. Busy weekend!

Be in prayer as the four of us drive down to Madera and back, especially when pulling a large trailer.

I will try to post some pictures from our trip once we return, I don’t know that I will have a chance to post anything while we are gone.

Let me catch everyone up on what has happened in the last week or so. Last time I posted on this was May 5th and we were supposed to receive our first proposal that day, which did happen.

Our first proposal came in and included absolutely everything we wanted. The key word there being ‘wanted.’  Here are some of the highlights…

• Mackie Onyx 24.4 (I thought the proposal would include either the Mackie Onyx 3280 or the Allen&Heath GL2800 w/32 channels)
•  DBX Drierack PA
• Lexicon MX200
• Fuman M-8L & M-10
• 2 Mackie SA1521z Active Speakers
• 1 Mackie SW1801z Super Active Sub
• 4 Mackie SRM350s for stage monitors
• 2 Behringer DSP1124P Feedback Destroyers
• 2 Benq SP830 Projectors
• 2 62×108 Da-lite rear projection screens
• Leviton/NSI Hon4d-000 and 0056d-000 Lighting packs (8 lights, 1 control board, gels, dmx dimmers, etc)
• 4 extra lights (2 Par56 and 2 Ellipsoidal spots)
• A bunch of stuff for the children’s area
• A bunch of pipe and drape, staging, and skirting
• Trailer system and upgrades
• A whole bunch of carts to store stuff in
• CoW Training - 2 days, 2 CoW staff travel to us, Trailer delivery, etc

For the most part this was exactly what we talked about during the site visit.  Prices were pretty good for most things, but the total cost was about $20,000 more than what we had to spend at the time.

After looking over the proposal in detail, having several meetings online and in person with the rest of the core team, a bunch of calls from Keith to Eric at CoW, searching the internet for better prices on some equipment, and a total of four revisions of the proposal we finally landed on a proposal that we all agreed to. Keep in mind that this all took place in a matter of 3 or 4 days.  Here are some of the highlights of the final proposal…

• Mackie Onyx 24.4
•  DBX Drierack PX
• Lexicon MX200
• Fuman M-8L & M-10
• 2 Mackie SRM450 Active Speakers
• 2 Mackie SRM350s for stage monitors
• 2 Mackie SRM150s for stage monitors
• 2 Behringer DSP1124P Feedback Destroyers
• 1 Benq SP830 Projectors
• 1 62×108 Da-lite rear projection screens
• Elation Lighting pack (8 par56, 1 control board, lighting trees, dmx dimmers, etc)
• A bunch of stuff for the children’s area (we changed out some items for others that cost less)
• A bunch of pipe and drape, staging, and skirting (we took out a few sections of pipe and drape)
• Trailer system and upgrades
• A whole bunch of carts to store stuff in (we got rid of one or two carts that would have just been for extra storage)
• Us traveling to Madera, CA to pick up the Trailer and Equipment and receive 4 hours of training on it

In all we saved over $11,000 from the original proposal.  When we first agreed on this proposal we didn’t know where the extra $10,000 or so would come from so we had to step out in faith that God would provide. Just like always, he did provide. And actually he provided above and beyond back in March without us even knowing. The Interstate Baptist Association had received some funds in March that were designated for us that we didn’t even know about until after we had decided on our order. God is GREAT!